# Coffee, tea, vger and day trippers

There is a big supermarket nearby where we usually go shopping and of
course they have a loyalty card. We have two cards belonging to the
same points-based account, but most of the time my wife uses her card
as even if we go together I am merely the driver and porter.

Last year we spent some points on a capsule coffee machine.
Theoretically the capsules are recycled together with all the other
packaging that here in Germany we put into the yellow bag. I'm not
entirely convinced as there are all the coffee and tea rests in the
capsules. Do they really have something to take these apart and then
recycle the plastic and the aluminum foil and whatnot?

What can I do? My wife does not like "real" coffee, she says that even
the mildest one is too strong for her. She always drinks those 3-in-1
things or cappuccinos. I do not like coffee either, but there were
some teas available for this type of machine (no names as they did not
pay for product placement :) and she has her many cappuccino variants.

Now they sent the info that the teas will be discontinued and they
also present some "alternatives": coffee from Peru, latte macchiato,
etc. Thank you so much, so I should change to coffee then, right?
No.

That's it when you depend on a single supplier. There are some other
manufacturers offering compatible capsules, but no teas. These were
online exclusive and maybe no one apart from me bought them. It's
called a coffee machine, not tea machine, dummy.

## Gemini

I was fiddling with the vger source code a bit to get it working on
Debian. I installed the libbsd-dev package because of strlcpy() and
strlcat(), included the right header (bsd/string.h), added the level
to the syslog() calls as the original code contained only the facility
and that triggered a broadcast message for all even for info level
messages.

I generated a self-signed cert and put vger behind nginx using a tcp
reverse proxy like described in [0]. So now I have a simple Gemini
server on the vps.

## Day trippers

The police are preparing for day trippers flocking to the mountains
on the weekend as the new corona measures are going to be valid from
Monday. So next week we will only be allowed to go as far as 15 km
measured from the city limit sign. The parking lots near the
recreational areas were already full on Wednesday as the day of the
arrival of the Three Kings is a holiday in Bavaria.

This morning on the radio they reported that the number of
municipalities having more than 200 new infections per 100k residents
decreased. I hope this weekend won't cause another spike in the 
number of new cases.

Living in a big city that 15 km radius is not so bad, but imagine a
small town in the middle of nowhere with an incidence value above
200. 

[0]:
https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/tcp-udp-load-ba
lancer/